NASDAQ Announces End-of-month Open Short Interest Positions in NASDAQ Stocks as of...

NASDAQ Announces End-of-month Open Short Interest Positions in NASDAQ Stocks as
of Settlement Date April 30, 2009

NEW YORK, May 11, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of
April 30, 2009, short interest in 2,518 NASDAQ Global Market(sm) securities
totaled 6,360,098,430 shares compared with 6,608,646,412 shares in 2,521 Global
Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of April 15, 2009. The
end-of-April short interest represents 2.72 days average daily NASDAQ Global
Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.09 days for the
prior reporting period.

Short interest in 481 securities on The NASDAQ Capital Market(sm) totaled
98,564,231 shares at the end of the settlement date of April 30, 2009 compared
with 99,670,613 shares in 476 securities for the previous reporting period. This
represents 1.58 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting
period's figure of 1.21.

In summary, short interest in all 2,999 NASDAQ(r) securities totaled
6,458,662,661 shares at the April 30, 2009 settlement date, compared with 2,997
issues and 6,708,317,025 shares at the end of the previous reporting period.
This is 2.69 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 3.02 days
for the previous reporting period.

The open short interest positions reported for each NASDAQ security reflect the
total number of shares sold short by all broker/dealers regardless of their
exchange affiliations. A short sale is generally understood to mean the sale of
a security that the seller does not own or any sale that is consummated by the
delivery of a security borrowed by or for the account of the seller.

For more information on NASDAQ Short interest positions, including publication
dates, visit http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.

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